And, if this only costs a cent to make, but they have to give us 25 cents credit, what is wrong with minting a giant coin (Bo holds up a 5" diameter, giant coin) that says "Four Trillion Dollars Debt of the United States Paid in Full In God We Trust." (Huge round of applause.) Now, I ask you, let's be very clear about it: is that legal? I'd be very enthusiastic if I thought I could get my great grandkids, my grandchild who's thirteen now and my three mules and a daughter, if I could get them out of debt because they all owe $42,000. That's what every one of you owe and that's what your kids owe and if you're born today, that's the price of being an American. I'd be excited about thinking on this because is this coin going to be made out of gold? Is it going to be made out of silver? No, it has to be made out of pot metal because it has to be worthless! It has to equal what it is that they have been giving us all this time!

I appreciate your applause in our solution. But we've got to apply the solution, and that's something to applaud. You see, it has to be in pot metal, doesn't it? Because it has to equal what the value is of these things right here (cash). So if we made it out of anything that was either gold or silver, it wouldn't be fair, would it?

Now you doubt? You doubt this? Let me read you, because you see we said, gosh, if they have to give us credit for the coin's face value, no matter what the coin cost to manufacture or is worth, why don't we just pay off the debt? So we wrote this letter, and here comes the answer. By the way, signed by Mr. Monk, who I'm glad did it because he's a lawyer, Assistant General Counsel to the United States Treasury Department, "The former chairman," so this has been thought of before, but you probably never heard of it, "The former chairman of the House Coining Subcommittee correctly points out that we could pay off the national debt with a single four trillion dollar coin." And so we will.

Some people seem to think that the whole trillion dollar coin idea is of recent vintage, but history shows differently.

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"From the political point of view it is no doubt dangerous that men are so easily stirred by bombastic talk. But the political actions of modern nationalism cannot be explained or excused by chauvinist intoxication. They are the outcome of cool though misguided reasoning."— Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government